Here’s a photo of Esther, with her Deputy Head (Deputy head prefect in school) badge.
We took the Geotrax out for Samuel, and he really enjoyed the railway lines that we built. Joseph was very helpful to set up tracks for him.
Today, 7 September 2017, saw Esther, David and Joseph taking their distance swim test. Grace happened to be on off today and she joined them at the pool, with Samuel, too.
At 10:15am, they were briefed by the coaches/examiners:
At 10:20am, they took off:
Joseph was doing the 1500m (30 laps) test while Esther and David were doing 2000m (40 laps) test, all within 1 hour. They did their 800m and 1500m tests earlier in April 2016. While they were swimming, Grace had fun with Samuel in the pool.
After about an hour, here are the results:
Joseph was swimming breast-stroke along with 2 other boys who are 2 years and 4 years older than him. For 2000m, Esther was the only girl and David was the youngest. Esther took 5 minutes more than the 60 minutes (probably due to lack of practice in both swimming and running) while David completed the fastest (free-style all the way).
Last photo, very tired children after the long swim.
Last Sunday, Samuel swam an entire lap by himself, with no floats, and he did that twice!
Today is the day after Singapore National Day, and schools are on holiday. This afternoon, Esther, David and Joseph went to Tiong Bahru Plaza to watch a movie by themselves, The Emoji Movie.
We continued our on-line ordering with Indian food from Brinda’s:
Grace worked night, so she skipped swimming, but here are the rest of us:
Samuel enjoyed the Engineering toy set, so we took out the larger box, and he was absolutely delighted with the increase in building materials!
Here’s a little miscellaneous post: our neighbour, bought a grey Honda Odyssey recently, and his plate is very similar to ours!
Esther finally received her birthday present from YowCH and Grace, the G-Shock GA1000FC watch that used to be YowCH’s. We had to buy a plastic resin strap online and replace the fibre-composite bracelet because the bracelet spreads wide at the watch and thus unable to hug her skinny wrist properly. The resin strap works fine.
Esther really loves the purple UV LED light of this Aviation model, which now has a plastic strap as a GA1000 (no “FC”).
Here’s a nice photo of Samuel drinking soup from a large bowl bigger than his head.
YowCH had a one-day trip to Batam (Sekupang ferry terminal) to visit a few islands owned by an Indonesian developer for a potential resort development, partnering SJ architect and SMEC environmental specialist. Departing from office at about 9:30am, he returned home by 8:15pm.
This is the Sekupang Ferry Terminal.
Views of the uninhabited islands.
The sampan that the client prepared for the consulting team.
The team hiked up the main island of about 15Ha.
The sceneries are nice, but it was very hot and sunny.
While waiting for teh return ferry, YowCH manage to prepare the trip report in the canteen.
Incidentally, Esther turned 15 today, but she is now in Hong Kong with her school trip from 5 to 8 June 2017.
Esther has been appointed one of two Deputy Head Prefects of her School.
We had some great food over the week:
Bukang Korean BBQ at Anchorpoint:
Penang food at West Coast Road (near West Coast CC):
Frozen durian paste through the Yonanas:
On 17 Jan, we picked up another set of Yamaha DTXplorer digital drum set, which is the same model as ours, for $250. We added the sound module and some pads to our set. We now have 4 (instead of 2) cymbals, 4 (instead of 3) tom-toms and one additional effects pad (we assigned the gong). Much richer in drum choices, and feels more pro.
Here’s a random shot of Esther doing her homework, with laptop support.
Our four children are now in 4 different schools, and here they are in their uniforms:
Esther got Merit for the ABRSM Music Theory Grade 4 exam.
